The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.